This joyous Spring finale to BAS' 24th Concert Season includes JS Bach's organ masterpiece Piece d'Orgue featuring BAS' organist/harpsichordist Elisa Williams Bickers, and the great sonatas from Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. The master composers composed chamber music as a vital mode of expression, performance and social interaction. What could be better than to showcase these delightful sonatas and arias evoking spring!

Bach Aria Soloists is utterly thrilled that they have been invited, along with great friend and trumpet virtuoso Rodney Marsalis, to perform at the Cayman Arts Festival in the Caymans!

7:30 PM

Bach Aria Soloists and Te Deum Present: Salve Mundi Salutare - O Hail Salvation of the World | This is Bach Aria Soloists' debut collaboration with Te Deum Chamber Choir. We are ecstatic about performing these sacred gems by Bach and Buxtehude for the first time with Te Deum. Salve Mundi Salutare, is explored, longed for, and celebrated in unique ways in the three pieces on this program

Women of Note in Word and Song November 11, 8:00 PM

Featuring trailblazing women composers through the ages and the formidable women in Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. | This collaborative, script in hand performance brings together the Bach Aria Soloists with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for an all-women tour-de-force! Riveting scenes from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “As You Like it,” “King Lear,” “Hamlet,” “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Twelfth Night,” “Othello” and “Merry Wives of Windsor,” paired with the extraordinary music of the following pioneers, a true fête for women!

Annual Holiday Concert December 9, 7:30 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Guest vocalist Lindsey Lang

The beloved Annual Holiday Concert is a highlight for BAS fans each December. The beautiful sounds of the season with intimate chamber music arrangements by the Bach Aria Soloists warms the heart and soothes the soul. Lindsey Lang, guest vocalist, join BAS.

DIALOGUE is set in artist Peregrine Honig's historic Greenwood Social Hall. Guests will be welcomed with adult libations and small bites. BAS will showcase stunning dialogues by master composers Monteverdi, Bach, Holst, Handel, and Prangcharoen-who composed two extraordinary works for Bach Aria Soloists. Each patron attending DIALOGUE will receive a one-of-a-kind, limited edition poster by Honig!

Annual BAS at the Park September 24, 12 p.m. Loose Park Rose Garden FREE Opening Concert, Registration required www.bachariasoloists.com [Sep 25, rain date]

In this FREE outdoor season-opener, hear the splendid music of Vivaldi, Couperin, Piazzolla, Piaf, and much more performed by the consummate artists of the Bach Aria Soloists amidst Kansas City’s fragrant roses. Bring comfortable seating and your favorite beverage, all music lovers!

Join us for an evening of fierce women in music and painting. Just as Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi chose to tell the story of the brave Judith, period composers Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Barbara Strozzi, and Hildegard von Bingen also drew inspiration from women throughout history, immortalizing their stories in music.

Performed by Bach Aria Soloists: Founder/Artistic Director Elizabeth Suh Lane, Soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson, Harpsichord Elisa Williams Bickers and featuring commentary by the senior Curator of European Arts Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, this evening will unite music and painting and celebrate the drama and splendor of the Baroque.